When you look in a mirror, the reflection is fundamentally you, but with a perfect reversal of all your features. This illustrates a phenomenon we also see in the tiny world of molecules. Some ...

New observatories and spacecraft missions are probing environments in our solar system that could potentially host life but ...

Electrons move differently through mirror-image chiral molecules, revealing magnetic asymmetries that may help explain life's ...

Public repositories of metabolomics data are expanding rapidly and can be leveraged to uncover previously undescribed metabolites. Reverse metabolomics is a workflow in which thousands of small ...

New study demonstrates that the direction of a magnetic field can influence how slightly different versions of the same ...

A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant interstellar cloud of gas and dust. This is exciting for those of us who keep lists ...